ParMac charger question

[julierx1]

What would be a reasonable life span for the rubber insulators? We have had them on now for about 8 years!! Should we switch them out?

 

[goodhors]

My tube insulators have lasted very well, over 30 years in the sun and weather.
As I mentioned, sometimes one will crack, leak electricity into the post, so I
replaced it. Found the problem with the fence tester, lots of power on one
side of the post, with almost nothing on the other side. Close checking of the
insulator, rolling it over, found the crack.

I do carry a hammer on my fence walks, since the staples can work loose in
heavy wind or after ice storms. Just whack the staple back down, and good
to go again.

I find this tensile fence much easier to keep up, keep working well, than
any other kind of fencing I know about. My weed whacking, wire checking
may sound like a lot of work, but really goes quick. Horses don't lean on
the wires or reach thru if the fencer is working right. With so many wires
the animals are pretty safe. My husband saw cattle, cows and calves getting
bounced off the wire during weaning time, not a single injury. Some of
those mother cows hit the wire several times, with no injury! Really sold
the fences to him. That farm also had a lot of wires, 14 is the recommended
number for heavy cattle use. Horses are 8 wires. Any time I hear about
folks dissing High Tensile, I ask about the construction. How many wires,
how large the paddock, or field is, with how many animals. So far, not one
complainer has built the fence to Specs of the Fence Company. So I don't
think you should blame the fence if people use it wrong. And an AMAZING
number of people don't even turn on the fencer most of the time! They
tell me the "animals are trained to the wire, know it is hot, so they shouldn't
try testing the fences. Saves on my electric bill only running the fencer part time."
This, after hearing how their animal was injured in the fencing!!! I know our
cow would TEST the wires with her whiskers, saw her doing it! Never had
a problem with her, since fencer was always on unless I was weed whacking it.
The cattle field was always NICELY trimmed under the hot wire, they loved the weeds
and carefully cleared them out so I didn't have to weed whack their fields.